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Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
That happened like two years ago.

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Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
eleven billion canadian us dollars

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
dsyp?

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
wait i thought peeps just gave a bunch of money to a racist to make terrible hot dogs. did something happen after that?

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Glad to see the 2nd Annual Punchable Face Contest with some strong finalists!

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Shifty Pony posted:

by completely crushing their dreams.

or at least making it clear that "on a portable electronic device" or "wherein the input device is a touchscreen" ain't gonna cut it.

which pretty much crushes their dreams.

Thank you for your service. :patriot:

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Pro click.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
Seeing the type of joy on people's faces when they pump up the bowl for the first time, or eat their very first set of snacks out of, is kind of like my friends faces below when we had a popcorn eating competition [ out of each others pants of course ], at my sisters Stag and Doe this fall. It's just so much fun! ... And practical!

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Vicas posted:

Why are all the ellipses 4 periods

4 different period harmonic 24 hour ellipses
rotate simultaneously within a single 4
quadrant rotation of a squared equator
and cubed Kickstarter.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

exant posted:

im sure that game will go down great at my local board game bar, itself funded by a kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1494445988/spielbound-board-game-cafe

Pledge $2,000 or more

2 backers

PRIVATE PARTY: You and up to 30 of your friends will have access to the full game library and have the Party Room all to yourself for one night!

i think i spent less on my wedding, for >200 people

You spent less than $2,000 on a wedding for >200 people? Did Mom write a check?

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

exant posted:

i spent way more than 2k on my wedding you idiots

Please do not lie in this thread.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

jony ive aces posted:

oatmeal's monkeycheese kittens is now up to five and a quarter million american dollars :tipshat:

Finally, the OUYA meets its match.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

ayn rand hand job posted:

does anyone remember that box game that he made as a promo for it

yeah i do. what a good idea.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
"Our ultimate goal is to not require recharging. If we are unable to reach that goal we have a few back up plans. One of which is a wireless charging solution and the other is an innovative kinetic charging system that will use the motion of the device itself to recharge the batteries. Again these are back up plans and our goal now is to make charging not required."

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
Also, love how it plays the classic "as seen in the news" trick of negative, harsh reviews as press coverage.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/03/crystal_wash_orbs_kickstarter/

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/crystal-wash-2-laundry-ball/

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
The renders are exactly the same. I'm betting that the team photoshopped it, and will just send out Aukeys.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
Actually, yeah, the label on on the car charger in https://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/1143992/files/20150111155509-ChargeTech-Fast-Charger-Indiegogo-Images.jpg is hella photoshopped.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

quote:

the first multi-touch technology that precisely senses conductive objects (like fingers) up to 1.2 inches away from the pad with sub-pixel resolution.

Yeah, I don't believe that's actually working for a minute. BACKED BY ADVANCED ALGORITHMS.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

pebble is on kickstarter. again.
promising e-ink. again.
idiots never learn

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises

i thought the world was tired of smart watches already. what the gently caress do they even do?

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
those dont look good in after effects why do they think they will look good irl

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Trig Discipline posted:

speaking of, if yospos hasn't seen this it should

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ5Hn-5l2o4

whole series is awesome

thank you for introducing me to this

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
that's physically impossible

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
i want to pick one up and then be amazed at how heavy it is and then basically nothing else.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
where's my kickstarter i'm mad you guys aren't making fun of it yet

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

fool_of_sound posted:

this is cool... JASPER

hi

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

suffix posted:

idk this would be hard to train my kegels with

but more seriously what is the diff between tihs and your average stick computer?

it's actually usable?

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
it's more tamper-resistant in that it has a read-only / mount and is cryptographically verified by our ostree setup. it would be much more difficult to write a traditional virus for than windows. we also don't allow the user to run randomly downloaded executables from the web / email. the system is more locked down in that way.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Vlad the Retailer posted:

how much driver fuckery did you have to do to get the Mali to work smoothly

this is actually our intel product. arm/mali product is still in r&d. i am the only one in the entire company with access to the mali driver source code. we had to do a lot of fuckery. see poo poo like https://github.com/endlessm/xf86-video-armsoc/commit/c00ec011017eca2bb18651189c415e9c00b8665c

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
we currently have in-house translations for portugese and spanish, with french and arabic translators on contract for haiti/syria

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Dolomite posted:

this sounds like slavery, linux is about freeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom!

linux is about choice.


the choice for me to shove you in a locker for being a dumb nerd.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
kick me in the crotch to start my boner
kick me in the crotch to start my boner
kick me in the crotch to start my boner
early in the mornin

wey hey and up he rises

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GUY WHO INVENTED LIFESAVERS?

THEY SAY HE MADE A MINT!

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE SCARECROW WHO WON THE NOBEL PRIZE?

HE WAS OUTSTANDING IN HIS FIELD!

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE TWO SATELLITES THAT GOT MARRIED?

THE WEDDING WASN'T MUCH, BUT THE RECEPTION WAS INCREDIBLE!

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE CHEESE FACTORY THAT EXPLODED IN FRANCE?

THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT BUT DE BRIE!

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
hi

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
here have an article from today about it

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/04/tech/mci-endless-computer-desktop-pc-emerging-markets/

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Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
it doesn't run android, and the reason it's a full desktop computer is because that's exactly what it should be: a full desktop computer

it's actually intel-based (so you can run skype and steam and dropbox and flash and...), the performance isn't lovely like your smartphone would be if you try to run a 1920x1200 desktop on it like microsoft and canoncial think you totally can (we tried that, trust us)

the reason it's got a funny large computer is because when we did user testing, that's the case design and product size people wanted the most. they want a computer they can feel proud about owning, that they can show off to their neighbors with.

people actually infer how powerful a computer is from the size, so when we did research with a dinky little box and case, everybody passed by it. "it's not a real computer". that sort of computer is also invisible in store shelves.

the ufoputer is designed to be big enough and wacky enough to seem powerful and sell.

happy to answer any other questions you have about it! was actually waiting for my kickstarter to be mocked in this thread.

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